Overview
- The object blazed for about six seconds around 17:55 UTC on March 8, traveling from the southwest to the northeast and visible across Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
- Fragments reached the ground in Rhineland-Palatinate, with at least one stone punching a football-sized hole in a roof in Koblenz-Güls and no injuries reported.
- Dedicated AllSky7 stations and numerous public videos recorded the event, and many witnesses reported a loud bang as the meteoroid fragmented.
- ESA’s Planetary Defence team preliminarily assesses the incoming body at a few metres in diameter and says its dusk approach likely kept it out of survey telescopes’ view.
- Meteorite pieces were recovered near Koblenz and are slated for laboratory classification, and local authorities emphasized the natural origin with no link to military activity.